Author: Roberta Grimes

The Third Wave of Physics

One of the primary indications that what the dead have been telling us is true is the fact that the study of the Einsteinafterlife turns out to be giving us a whole new physics. It isn’t about death at all. Instead, it is the next stage of quantum physics, the end toward which medical practice is tending, the answers to astronomers’ greatest questions, and the final retort to anthropologists who consider people to be just apes. It is the brand-new physics that physicists have been struggling to assemble for a hundred years. It’s a Consciousness Theory of Everything that seems to solve the biggest problems in modern science.

Because this is a new foundational science – it’s the third great physics, beyond Newton and Planck – for those few of us who have figured it out enough to understand what the dead are revealing, it makes popular science magazines lots of fun. Scientific American and Discover are my favorites. They are full of accounts of the groping that frustrated scientists still are doing, trying ever more desperately to make insanely complicated and ultimately ridiculous theories make sense. We can see where they are going wrong. We can guess at the eventual solutions to their problems that will be documented only when physicists at last take over from hobbyists the thrilling new study of consciousness-based physics.

All the current scientific foolishness would be pass-the-popcorn time if it were not so tragic. The plain fact that physicists are trying not to be too plain about is that none of their theories for unifying Newtonian physics with quantum physics have panned out. The Great Hadron Collider was their best shot. And except for finding what they believe is the Higgs Boson – apparently found now, but still inexplicable – they have been unable to find any of the particles that all their grand unifying theories have predicted.

As you know if you have been reading these blog posts, the third wave of physics isn’t complicated. It’s simple. In recent weeks I have been sharing with you modern science’s stupidest problems, together with possible third-wave-of-physics answers. As I hear from readers, I find that these discussions are resonating with you, so here for your delectation are three basic third-wave observations based upon what the dead are telling us:

  • Your brain does not generate your mind. Why is this basic fact so hard for scientists to accept? There is so much evidence that your brain is just a receiver and transmitter that the case is really open and shut, but just one new tidbit should suffice. As of 2014, the human genome has been calculated to comprise 19,000 genes, which is more than 2,000 fewer genes than the genome of C. Elegans, a transparent nematode of a thousand cells that is just one millimeter long. Nearly all the genes in the human genome actually predate the emergence of primates. Now, IF the human brain generates the mind, then where are all the genes that would be required to account for intelligence, personality, emotions, speech, and all the other unique abilities that make us so decisively the dominant species?
  • Consciousness is all that exists. We cannot say this often enough. Whether the base creative Consciousness (or Mind) is greater than human consciousness, or whether our minds once free of our bodies are of precisely the same base creative force as Mind, is something that nobody knows for sure. Max Planck said that human consciousness is primary and pre-existing, which was the greatest discovery in history; and sadly, he was altogether ignored. Your consciousness is eternal and powerful. You never began, and you never will end.
  • The only way to unite Newtonian and quantum physics is with a Consciousness Theory of Everything. Theorigin_4290962747 fact that physicists don’t yet realize this is the reason why they have been so long in the weeds. The theory of everything that is most consistent with what the dead are revealing to us is set forth in Thomas Campbell’s My Big TOE (2007). If mainstream physicists come to their senses before Dr. Campbell makes his transition, then he is a shoo-in for a Nobel Prize. If you are an ambitious young physicist, then you ought to read Dr. Campbell’s book. He is getting on in years, and the award is never posthumous, so perhaps the Nobel Prize that is going to be given for a Consciousness Theory of Everything might have your name on it!

These are three core facts of the third wave of physics. Your great-grandchildren will be learning them in school. What interests me most, of course, is what these core facts tell us about who and what human beings really are, and that is what we will discuss next week.

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Inching Toward Reality

Particle physicists put up a brave front, but they are going through difficult times. All their current theories about the nature of reality – string theory, the multiverse, and what-else-have you – are turning out to have serious flaws. UniversePerhaps if they will return to that old saw, Occam’s Razor, and rethink reality along simpler lines, they will save themselves some headaches. In fact, courtesy of our beloved dead, the answers to many of their questions have been under their noses for more than a century.

I am becoming ever more confident that the 27% of the universe that physicists call “dark matter” because it interacts with gravity but not with photons of light are the six or so energy-based levels where the dead reside. They exist precisely where we are, but at graduated vibratory rates between this material universe and the Source level, the highest energy level of which we are aware.

I admit to having poked good-natured fun at physicists who are earnestly studying a mere 5% of what exists as if that were the whole of reality. Five percent! But apparently physicists are at last beginning to look more closely at the dark matter that is at least six times greater in volume than all the visible matter and energy put together.

To quote a wonderful article in the August issue of Scientific American entitled “Could Dark Matter Make Invisible, Parallel Universes?”, “Scientists are increasingly considering the possibility that dark matter, in particular, is not just a contrivance to account for the motion of visible matter but a hidden side of the universe with a rich inner life. It may consist of a veritable zoo of particles interacting through novel forces of nature—an entire universe interwoven silently with our own.” “Observations suggest it outweighs ordinary matter by a factor of 6 to 1. Galaxies and galaxy clusters are embedded in giant balls, or ‘halos,’ of dark matter.” “Could there be a hidden world that is an exact copy of ours, containing hidden versions of electrons and protons, which combine to form hidden atoms and molecules, which combine to form hidden planets, hidden stars and even hidden people?”

Oh, yes indeed! That the afterlife levels outweigh this material level by a factor of 6 to 1, that they do indeed have a “rich inner life,” and that they would be concentrated on material galaxies all makes perfect sense. And yes – joyously! – to the authors’ speculation about those glorious “hidden people.” Dark matter harbors billions of people that – silly us! – we used to think were dead.

           The afterlife levels are as real as this material universe. We have been receiving abundant and consistent communications from denizens of those levels for nearly two hundred years, so it feels good finally to see some physical evidence of their existence!

But the folks doing this speculating are particle physicists, so they continue to make one unfortunate error. They cannot conceive of a kind of matter that is entirely consciousness-based, and is not composed of the vortices of energy that they fondly still think of as particles. Insofar as we have been able to determine, the matter in the afterlife levels neither possesses matter-based particles, nor needs them.

The venerable Max Planck was one of the greatest physicists of the (in many ways frustrating) twentieth century. He received the 1918 Nobel Prize in physics, and he is remembered now as the father of quantum theory. He should have received a second Nobel Prize for propounding the even more important theory that what we think of as human consciousness is primary and pre-existing. In 1931 he said, ”I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” He seems even then to have understood what modern evidence now insists is true: human minds are integral parts of the Source that brings this universe into being.

           Now let’s take a closer look at the dark energy that is 68% of reality. Like dark matter, it interacts with gravity but not with matter-based photons of light, and considering that it makes up two-thirds of the universe, physicists seem origin_4290962747remarkably incurious about it. The authors of the article quoted above dismiss it by saying,“As for dark energy, its only role appears to be to accelerate cosmic expansion, and the available evidence indicates it has remained completely unchanged over the life of the cosmos.” Unchanged it may have been, but if it is Max Planck’s pre-existing consciousness energy, then it certainly has not been inactive. It continues even now to hold every aspect of this universe in perfect suspension.

           Positing that dark energy is consciousness energy helps to solve another scientific problem. As was said here in a recent blog post, 80% of the visible light in the nearby universe is not photon-based. All that light could very well be spiritual light that has its origin in the dark energy that we already know makes up most of the universe. Having seen a burst of spiritual light as a child, I can tell you it is much brighter than sunlight. I’m not quite ready just yet to state that dark energy has to be the Source Itself… but that is almost certainly what it is.

 

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There Is No GOOHF Card

After two experiences of light in childhood, naturally I was an ardent Christian. Having married a Catholic, I was a Catholic origin_1045120420Christian, a Catechism teacher, a Lector, and such a devoted daily reader of the Bible that I have read it cover-to-cover at least a dozen times. Each time I got to the final page of Revelation, I would read the New Testament a second time and then plunge back in with Genesis I. I was a Christian with a Capital “C.”

But during all those years, I also was reading volumes of early-twentieth-century communications from dead people. In hundreds of British and American communications, never have I found any evidence that God or another religious figure ever has judged anyone; nor have I seen the smallest hint that the death of Jesus makes an afterlife difference. Gradually, the disconnect between what Christianity insists is true and what the dead were telling me became so unbearable that I stopped altogether reading the Bible in my early fifties. I still went to Mass for my husband’s sake, but I tried not to listen. I tried to ignore the life-size, full-color bleeding Jesus who looked down sadly from the cross above the altar.

It took me further years of researching the afterlife before I developed enough conviction to be able to say these words aloud: “Christianity is wrong. Jesus does not redeem us.” I ducked, but there was no lightning bolt. At that point, I was no longer a Christian.

I feel foolish now about not having gone back sooner to reading only the Gospels. I remembered enough of what Jesus had said to know that some of it jibed with the afterlife evidence, but still I was afraid that perhaps he had said some things that were glaringly untrue. And, Christian or not, I still loved Jesus. I couldn’t bear to test him.

I think you know the rest. Jesus is not wrong! Despite two thousand years of Catholic custody, and despite having been translated from Aramaic to Greek and then from Greek into English, the words of Jesus in the Gospels are at least 95% consistent with what we began to learn from the dead only recently. Jesus knew things about God, reality, death, and the afterlife that he could not have known if he had not come to us directly from God. Little things. Big things! Dear friends, even though Christianity is wrong, Jesus is absolutely right.

I am naïve enough to hope that others who love Jesus will be heartened to find this validation, but I realize how unlikely that is. Christianity is based in fear, and Christian clergymen have a powerful tool for keeping loyal congregations. They are purveyors of the Get Out Of Hell Free (“GOOHF”) Card. In most denominations, following the teachings of Jesus turns out to be optional, doesn’t it? Just be a member of this particular church, accept Jesus as your personal savior even as late as your moment of death, and you have a free pass into heaven.

So, what does Jesus have to say about the non-Gospel Christian GOOHF Card?

           “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?… You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.’” (Matthew 15:3-9)

           “You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men… You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions.” (Mark 7:8-9)

Hmmm. And what does he say about clergymen who teach something other than what he teaches in the Gospels?

           “Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted in the marketplaces, and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. Such men will be punished most severely.” (Mark 12:38-40)

           Oops! If I were a clergyman, I think the least I would do would be to ditch the flowing robes and the fancy prayers.

Over and over in the Gospels, Jesus says that he came to earth as our teacher, and he told us back then what the afterlife evidence of the past two hundred years now shows us is true: we are required to learn during our lives on earth how to love more perfectly and forgive more completely. That is why we are here. And there are no shortcuts.

           “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40)

           “You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven…. Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:43-48)

What wisdom does Jesus have for Christians who believe they have their GOOHF Card in hand, so they don’t need to follow the Lord’s teachings?

           “What do you think? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the first and said, ‘Son, go and work today in the vineyard.’ ‘I will not,’ he answered, but later he changed his mind and went. Then the father went to the other son and said the same thing. He answered, ‘I will, sir,’ but he did not go. Which of the two did what his father wanted?… I tell you the truth, the tax collectors and the prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God ahead of you.” (Matthew 21:28-31)

“I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” (Matthew 8:11-12) (The outer darkness that Jesus describes does exist, and emphatically you do not want to go there.)

           In frustration at those who worship him while ignoring his teachings, Jesus says somewhat crankily, “Why do you call me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?” (Luke 6:46) “If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” (John 8:31-32)

Jesus seems to have had such an aversion to religions that lately I am coming to wonder whether, rather than establishing yet one more religion with its own slate of non-Gospel, human traditions, what he really may have intended to do was to teach us that we can approach God individually, and thereby free ourselves from religions altogether.

“When you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your origin_3393763298Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.” (Matthew 6:6)

Dear friends, no matter which denomination you choose, Christianity cannot give you a Get Out Of Hell Free Card. You cannot be “saved” on your deathbed from the folly of having wasted a lifetime’s opportunities to learn to love and forgive. So please don’t do that! Instead, please begin today to read the red letters in your Gospels, the glorious living words of Jesus. Our beloved Wayshower and Best Friend speaks to us as truly now as he spoke two thousand years ago, and his words remain the best short course in how to live the most perfect life. As Jesus says, “I shall be with you always, to the very end of the age.” (Matthew 28:20)

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Love is All You Need

Pregnant MomOne of the things that is most certain about the afterlife evidence is what it tells us is the reason why we even are alive at all. Why are we here? What is human life for? The very fact that there exists such an exquisite and gloriously planned afterlife for each of the seven billion struggling on earth, and the uncounted billions who already are there, strongly suggests that all our lives on earth must have a pretty spectacular purpose.

An overlong but nevertheless enjoyable article in The New York Times of July 18 explores the fact that all the things that most of us strive for cannot make us happy, but instead, from wealth and power and fame right through every pleasure of the flesh, they too often disappoint us. The very title of the article – “Love People, Not Pleasure” – gives away the point toward which it labors: having stuff only tends to make us more miserable, while the true source of happiness is loving others. Or in the pithier words of the eighteenth-century poet, William Blake: “I sought my soul, But my soul I could not see. I sought my God, But my God eluded me. I sought my brother, And I found all three.”

Over and over, the dead who were communicating with us a century ago and the upper-level beings communicating with us now have said that the meaning and purpose of our lives is learning to love one another more perfectly. That’s it! That’s all.

           Of course, Jesus told us all of this two thousand years ago. He reduced the Old Testament’s Ten Commandments to just one commandment: that we learn how to love.

“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” (John 13:34)

“‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40)

“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you: love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven…. Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.” (Matthew 5:43-48)

To love perfectly is to be perfect. The whole meaning and purpose of every life on earth is to learn to love one another as we love ourselves, which is something else that Jesus said to us: “Love your neighbor as yourself” (Matthew 22:39). (Note: Jesus didn’t say “Love your neighbor as if he were yourself,” but he pointedly just said “as yourself” – because, as origin_3393763298evidence shows, your neighbor is yourself.)

To be perfect, we must learn to love everyone on earth more perfectly! We must love every curmudgeon, every mass-murderer, and even our far-beyond-despicable ex-spouse. “If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? Even sinners love those who love them.” (Luke 6:32) The love that we were born to learn is perfect love from our deepest heart for everyone, and even for the most unlovable.As A Course in Miracles tells us, everything that happens in our lives is “either love or a call for love.” So no matter the question, love is always the answer.

The dead tell us that we are here to learn how to love, our dominant religion echoes that wisdom, and experience tells us that love is the root of true happiness. That makes it simple, doesn’t it?

 

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Finding God and the Afterlife?

As you might surmise from my blog posts of June 28 and August 4, I am fascinated by dark matter and energy, origin_4290962747and struck by the possibility that they might be, respectively, the post-death levels of our reality and the base creative force (Mind, Source, or God – your choice). The 95% of the universe that is composed of dark matter and dark energy is called “dark” because it won’t interact with photon-based light. It is demonstrably not material, but that makes it not one bit less real! And, more and more, we are coming to suspect that dark matter and dark energy might in fact be the afterlife levels and the Source. Consider:

  • The post-death levels have been established by abundant and consistent evidence pulled together over the past nearly 200 years, and they exist precisely where we are. If they were detectable by us at all, we would imagine that they would not react with the photon-based light of this level of reality, but they might interact with gravity. Dark matter fills that bill precisely. It is said now to make up 27% of the universe, while physical matter makes up less than 5%. Given that there are about six afterlife levels beneath the Source level, the proportions here seem to be amazingly right.
  • Consciousness is primary and pre-existing. Quantum physicist Max Planck figured this out more than eighty years ago. He said: I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.”
  • The base creative force is continuously creating this universe. As we have come to understand it, Mind exists outside of time as a kind of consciousness grid that continuously creates this material universe as something like a thought. Physicist Sir James Jeans brilliantly observed, “The universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a great machine.” For Mind to be detectable only as dark energy, and for it to make up 68% of the universe and be evenly integrated with it throughout, is about what we would expect.

What has me circling back again to dark matter and dark energy is my beloved Scientific American, which seems to be stumbling toward our point of view at breathtakingly glacial speed. Its most recent issue contains an article entitled “Could Dark Matter Make Invisible, Parallel Universes?” The article’s authors tell us that “Dark matter seems to be a sea of invisible particles that fills space unevenly; dark energy is spread out uniformly and acts as if it is woven into the fabric of space itself.” Yup and yup. Some of the afterlife levels are as solid-seeming as this material level of reality, but they are made of a purer, consciousness-based matter; and the grid of Mind which suspends and continuously creates this universe is indeed woven into its very fabric.

For the past two centuries, mainstream scientists have ignored the afterlife evidence altogether, so even today they mostly have no clue that there is an evidence-based explanation for dark matter and dark energy. Nor are they seeking such an explanation, since everything that they do at this point is safely inside their material box. It is as if they were modern-day explorers setting out to discover a whole new world by peering through beach-based telescopes and squinting very, very hard. Is dark matter made up of WIMPs (weakly interacting massive particles)? After all, WIMPs don’t much interact with light. Or no, it might be super-WIMPS!

But this article tells us that at last scientists are beginning to see that “there is no reason… that dark matter should be as boring as astronomers tend to presume.” So they are beginning to speculate that dark matter might indeed be a whole “hidden world” that is identical to our own. Is it possible that there are “hidden physicists and astronomers even now peering through their telescopes and wondering what their dark matter is, when in fact their dark matter is us?”

Sadly, no, the authors reason. There are rules of physics that exclude the notion of hidden people, and anyway dark matter is six times more abundant than visible matter. For reasons so boring to a layperson that we won’t enumerate them here, the authors conjure up a different kind of matter that “may emit and reflect hidden light” that is invisible to us, which is why dark matter remains unseen. Ahem. Apparently actual scientists don’t read magazines like Scientific American, or they would have noticed a recent article that indicated that eighty percent (eighty percent!) of the light in our nearby universe has no apparent source. Dark matter, anyone?

“An equally intriguing possibility is that dark matter interacts with dark energy,” the authors tell us. They even speculate that dark matter “somehow triggered the emergence of dark energy.”

UniverseWell, no. It’s the other way around. Dark energy – which is, please recall, some 68% of the universe! – triggered the emergence of both dark matter and this material universe. Outside of time, it continuously holds it all in perfect suspension. But this simple explanation is something that most scientists cannot even consider because science maintains atheism as a fundamental dogma. No mainstream scientist who values his career will come remotely close to finding God.

As I learn more about dark matter and dark energy, I become ever more confident that indeed these deepest mysteries of science are perfectly explainable. Occam’s Razor, a theory much-beloved among scientists, holds that the simplest explanation generally is the best explanation. And what explanation could be simpler? Dark matter is the six or so levels of afterlife reality below the Source level, each of them roughly the size of the universe and clustered more densely where there are heavenly bodies; And dark energy is the Source level, Mind, the Matrix, the Uncaused Cause, the only thing that independently exists. It will take mainstream scientists awhile longer to get there, but I am betting as of today that eventually they will be forced to conclude (very much against their will) that in finding dark energy, they have inadvertently found God after all.

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Suicide

I guest frequently on radio programs, and some recent hosts have ask me to address the suicide of Robin Williams with the hope that I can comfort the many people who love that beautiful man. I love him, too. But I have little comfort to give to radio Robin Williams Starlisteners, and I don’t plan to discuss his passing on my own weekly program, Seek Reality. The best news that the afterlife evidence offers to us about suicide is that it is not all bad news.

To understand why killing yourself never is a good idea, it is important to know a few basic things. Briefly:

1)    The chance to learn on earth is a gift. We are told that there are many more people wanting to live an earth-life than there are bodies to accommodate them, and we who are here are the fortunate ones who were given this phenomenal opportunity.

2)    We plan our lives. In close cooperation with our guides and with those who will be important in our lives and their guides, each of us writes a pre-birth plan. We cannot say for certain that every bad thing that happens in our lives is planned, but the evidence is strong that we eagerly plan to have bad things happen so we can grow spiritually. An easy life is like an easy gym session: it doesn’t build much spiritual muscle.

3)    Each of us plans two or three possible exit points into our lives, and suicide never is one of them. As soon as we have gotten whatever spiritual growth can be wrung from this lifetime, our higher consciousness takes the next exit and we happily boogie outta here.

So, you can see the problem. We petitioned for the chance to come here, and we planned whatever lesson is making us think now that we would rather die than see it through. If we commit suicide, we land back in the Summerland and we face our post-death judgment phase while we are struggling with the horrible realization that we screwed up very badly.

God doesn’t judge us. No religious figure judges us, and that is bad news since perhaps a loving God would have compassion on us for our mistake in taking our own lives. Each of us is our own afterlife judge, and the evidence is strong that we judge ourselves ruthlessly. We know what we intended! We planned to have great spiritual growth come from whatever caused us to kill ourselves, and we entered this lifetime hungry for that growth. Instead, we threw our chance away. We blew it!

The way suicides handle their self-judgment seems to vary considerably:

1)    Sub-adults forgive themselves easily. Children and people even into their twenties seem not to have trouble forgiving themselves, and they get tremendous loving support.

2)    The old and the dying generally forgive themselves. There seems to be a sense on their part that they have wrung most of the value out of this lifetime, so hastening their imminent departure was a forgivable decision.

3)    People in midlife who kill themselves may be unable to manage self-forgiveness. I don’t think that anyone knows the statistics, but evidence is strong that many who kill themselves in midlife in order to avoid a planned catastrophe – divorce, bankruptcy, a career crisis, whatever – will find self-forgiveness to be difficult or impossible.

Our ability to attain the higher afterlife levels is based on our rate of spiritual vibration. Evidence suggests that nearly everyone who has lived a reasonable life achieves at least the third afterlife level. But if you are unable to forgive yourself for something you have done in life, then gradually your spiritual vibratory rate will slow. You will find it harder and harder to remain on the third level. You will have plentiful love and counseling, but ultimately unless you can forgive yourself you won’t be able to maintain even the second afterlife level. You will end up in what Jesus called the outer darkness, “where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”

Where does this leave our beloved Robin Williams? He was an ambitious being when he entered this lifetime. He chose a horrendous set of lessons, combining complex interpersonal problems and extraordinary professional success with mental illness, and reportedly also Parkinson’s Disease. Wow! Any one of the four would be a tough row to hoe, and he chose them all. He was only in his early sixties, which today is late middle age. And he is bright. He is intense. I worry that for him, self-forgiveness may not be easy.

Fortunately, though, Robin Williams is very much loved. And for us to send love to those who have recently died seems to assist them in maintaining their spiritual vibratory rate, and even to assist them in self-forgiveness. Whenever I am asked about the fate of people who commit suicide, I always say that suicide is a disastrously bad idea and explain why that is true, but I also urge everyone to send love and light to loved ones lost this way, and to pray for these people in Robin Williams Quotewhatever prayer tradition makes sense to the mourner. If everyone who loves Robin Williams will do that, then I am confident that he is going to be fine.

As is true of everything else that we once might have regarded as sin, the problem with suicide is not the deed itself, but rather it is the tremendous sense of guilt that suicide can bring. Don’t even think about killing yourself! The problem with killing yourself is that it is impossible for your mind to die.

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Seek Reality Radio

SEEK REALITY is on Web Talk Radio as of January 5, 2015, with a new podcast every week. And it continues on the Contact Talk Radio Network live on Saturdays at 10:00 a.m. pacific time, 1:00 p.m. eastern time.

Podcasts of all of our programs are available for free on iTunes.

Here are my Seek Reality radio programs from early July through the end of 2014 that are available now for download on iTunes:

7/5 – Gary Schwartz on His Latest Research – Gary Schwartz is the foremost traditional scientist working in this field today, and whenever he is my guest we have fun and make news!

7/12 – Donna Smith-Moncrieffe Talks About Using Spiritual Energy – Donna is a fearless researcher with some amazing insights to share.

7/19 – Victor Zammit – Victor and Wendy are stars of the afterlife-research world. Their Zammit Friday report is a must-read, so if you don’t yet receive it, go to victorzammit.com and subscribe!

7/26 – Dianne Collins Talks About “Quantum Thinking” – Dianne’s book, Do You Quantum Think?, is an impressive and exciting piece of work, and hearing her talk about how she arrived at her conclusions is a delight.

8/2 – Robert Kopecky Talks About How to Survive Life (and Death) – Robert Kopecky survived three near-death experiences, and the result was a delightful book of wisdom. We will be discussing the only things that matter and how to live life to the full.

8/9 – Hillis Pugh Talks About Gratitude – Hillis Pugh teaches the power of gratitude and gratitude affirmations, which is a topic very important to me as well. His book is Thank You Thursday.

8/16 – Rosemary Ellen Guiley Talks About Afterlife Communication Methods. – Rosemary is a gifted psychic, and a powerhouse of information about how we can use ancient methods to better communicate with our dead loved ones.

8/23 – John McGrail Talks About His Book, The Synthesis Effect – John is an expert on personal empowerment and how to make the most of your life using techniques based in our quantum reality.

8/30 – Dave Edwards Talks About His Tragic, Triumphant History – Having lost his beloved and their newborn child, Dave was driven to the edge of despair until those very loved ones intervened and transformed his life. His is a gripping, uplifting story.

9/6 – Carol & Mikey Morgan Discuss Signs from the Dead – Our beloved Carol and Mikey were of considerable help as I was writing The Fun of Staying in Touch. Mikey is going to give us more information about signs and how they are produced!

9/13 – Donna Smith-Moncrieffe Discusses Healing, OBEs, and Past-Life Regression – Donna is a gifted researcher of a number of important phenomena. This is her second appearance on Seek Reality – her first was wonderful and highly enlightening.

9/20 – R. Craig Hogan and Roberta Grimes Talk About What the Afterlife is Like – Several listeners have asked us to do a detailed discussion about living in the afterlife. We look forward to sharing with you the best news in all of human history!

9/27 – Psychic Medium Mark Anthony Talks About His Book, Love Never Dies – Mark Anthony is the “Psychic Lawyer,” a gifted medium since childhood, and his experiences have been fascinating and amazing.

10/4 – Joannie and Darrell Bolton Talk About Their Book, With Unwashed Hands – Darrell Bolton is a traditional Christian missionary who had a medical emergency in a primitive country that is both Communist-leaning and partly Muslin, and the fact that he is a retired Air Force officer caused some of those who treated him medically to want to kill him. Fortunately, Joannie was there to help, and the power of their minds (what Jesus called “faith”) resulted in some amazing miracles.

10/11 – Terri Jay, the Psychic “Horse Whisperer – I don’t entirely agree with Terri on some things, but her powers are undoubted and she makes a fascinating guest.

10/18 – Robyn Reynolds Talks About Communicating With Her Lost Stepson – This lovely woman’s remarkable spiritual voyage following the death of her stepson at the age of twenty makes for a wonderful and heartwarming story.

10/25 – Hillis Pugh Talks About the Power of Gratitude – I love this wonderful, great-spirited man who has devoted his life to teaching (and living) the power of gratitude!

11/1 – Jamie Turndorf – Dr. Love – Talks About her Book, Love Never Dies – Jamie’s book is the most extraordinary love story that I have ever read, even extending far beyond death. And it is all true!

11/8 – R. Craig Hogan Talks About the 2014 ASCS Conference and the Exciting Things Planned for 2015 – Craig and I co-chaired this year’s conference, and we are planning something even more amazing for 2016 (right side of the banner above).

11/15 – Betty Anne Millar Talks About Amazing Signs from her Husband – These include some extraordinary experiences with electronic communication.

11/22 – Waller Joel Talks About Physical Mediumship – Our own dear friend Waller will be my guest!

11/29 – Donna Smith-Moncrieffe Talks About Physical Mediumship – Like Waller, she was at the David Thompson seances in Sarasota in September.

12/6 – Dianne Collins Talks About Quantum Thinking – This is Dianne’s second visit with us. Her book is extraordinary!

12/13 – W. Dennis Parker Talks About Therapeutic Hypnosis – The capacity of our own minds to heal us is powerful!

12/20 – Roberta Grimes Talks About the Meaning and the Message of Jesus – I am my own guest.

12/27 – Roberta Grimes Talks About the Nature of Reality – Again, I am my own guest.
My final two podcasts of 2014 were from my heart to yours! My big wish is that you can step forth now from the doubts and fears that both science and Christianity have sown in us, and enter with joy the abundant and glorious truth that you are a powerful eternal being, an infinitely precious part of Source, and you are forever perfectly loved! 

ASCSI Conference!

THE ACADEMY FOR SPIRITUAL AND CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES

AFTERLIFE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION SECTION

“Life In the Afterlife”

Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, September 25-27, 2015

The Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies put on an extraordinary conference in July of 2014 entitled “New Developments in Afterlife Communication.” Its 2015 conference, “Life in the Afterlife,” promises to be even better, with presentations by some of the leading lights in the worldwide field of afterlife studies. I am co-chairing this conference, and I’ll be one of its presenters. I hope to see you there. It will be illuminating, groundbreaking, and a lot of fun!

Your Mind is Eternal

The greatest discovery in all of human history was expounded by quantum physicist Max Planck in the early part of the twentiethorigin_4290962747 century. I am told that he wasn’t the first to put it forth, but his experiments demonstrated it so conclusively that he was frank to say it aloud. Sadly, he was altogether ignored. The only thing that won him a Nobel Prize was his work in quantum physics. But he certainly should have received a second Nobel Prize for his theory that what we think of as human consciousness is primary and pre-existing.

The Fun of Staying in Touch will be out late this month. It was delayed a bit by my friend Gary Schwartz’s offer to write a terrific Foreword, and also by the fact that I am finishing Letter From Wonder for the fall. Publishing six books in one year because you are catching up on a twenty-year drought does take quite a bit of time! But in assembling quotations for The Fun of Staying in Touch, I have been struck yet again by the fact that the earliest quantum physicists seem fully to have understood that they had made a discovery that was even more important than the role of quanta. They had discovered that human minds are of the very stuff that brings the universe into being.

Abundant support for the theory that what we think of as human consciousness is primary and pre-existing derives naturally from the double-slit and other classic quantum physics experiments, all of which suggest that researchers’ own minds influence their experimental results. Max Planck said in 1931, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” By 1944 he was saying, “As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as a result of my research about atoms this much: There is no matter as such. All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particles of an atom to vibration and holds this most minute solar system of the atom together. We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent mind. This mind is the matrix of all matter.”

           Planck wasn’t the only leading early-twentieth-century physicist to come out and say that human consciousness seems to be primary and pre-existing. The grid of human-like consciousness from which all of reality apparently suspends is sometimes called the “matrix”; it is also called the “field.” Albert Einstein, winner of the 1922 Nobel Prize in physics, said of subatomic particles, “The field is the sole governor of the particle.”

Mathematician Euan Squires agreed that, “Every interpretation of quantum mechanics involves consciousness.”                          

Other Nobel-level scientists, too, have come to conclude that what we think of as human consciousness has to be primary. Biologist George Wald, winner of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, is quoted as saying, “It has occurred to me lately—I must confess with some shock at first to my scientific sensibilities—that both questions (the origin of consciousness in humans and the origin of life from non-living matter) might be brought into some degree of congruence. This is with the assumption that mind, rather than emerging as a late outgrowth in the evolution of life, has existed always as the matrix, the source and condition of physical reality—that stuff of which physical reality is composed is mind-stuff.”

And so it is! Exactly right.

All the evidence indicates that your mind is an undivided part of the energy-like potentiality that brings forth the universe. As such, it is:

1)    Eternal. Your mind exists outside of time. It never began, and it never will end.

2)    Powerful. Even while we are in bodies, the power of our minds seems to be limited only by our own beliefs in their powerlessness. After death, our minds can literally create the realities in which we live.

3)    United with all other minds. In truth, there is only one of us here. Each of our minds is deeply united with every other human mind.

4)    Fundamentally good! Our cultures distort our behavior so severely that we have some strange notions about human nature that simply are not borne out by what we now understand to be true about the nature of our minds. While our minds are sufficiently creative to conceive of evil, they are at their base the very essence of pure love that we have long imagined God to be. That is who we are.

EinsteinAs that universal genius, Albert Einstein, said of the overarching Mind of which each of our minds is a part, “Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe – a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble.”

Our powers are modest, true. And deservedly we ought to be humble in the face of God. But we are of God’s very essence. Powerful, eternal, and infinitely good. At the core of your being, that is who you are!

 

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Willful Scientific Blindness

A few weeks ago I talked about some of the ways in which the fact that mainstream science has ignored the afterlife evidence has Universemade scientists unable to understand some seemingly unrelated things. When you arbitrarily choose to ignore all evidence related to a major aspect of reality, then naturally your understanding of the rest of reality will be distorted! The levels of reality that we enter at death exist precisely where we are but at a higher vibratory rate, very much as different television channels exist in the same place but at different frequencies. Choosing to study only Channel Five, as mainstream science still does, is going to make you oblivious of the content and effects of all those other channels.

For scientists to flat ignore nearly two hundred years of abundant and consistent communications from the dead, and for them further to ignore all the related implications of quantum physics and consciousness research, is going to mean that their attempts to study their own “approved” aspects of reality will come up against repeated frustrations. I enjoy reading popular-science magazines, in part because so often when I discover some new scientific conundrum I can readily think of plausible explanations that are related to the greater reality of which this universe is an integral part (see Mainstream Science is off the Rails, June 28, 2014).

I hadn’t planned to be back on this topic so soon, but I have just learned something else that confounds me. Scientists have only now discovered that eighty percent – eighty percent – of the detectable light in the nearby universe seems to have no discernible source!

To quote the article linked above:

“It’s as if you’re in a big, brightly lit room, but you look around and see only a few 40-watt lightbulbs,” astronomer Juna Kollmeier — a Carnegie Institution for Science professor and the lead author of the new study on missing light said in a statement this week. “Where is all that light coming from?”

Good grief, how is this possible? How have they altogether ignored something so major for so long? This foolishness ranks right up there with the fact that mainstream physicists continue to study as if it were the whole enchilada what even they themselves admit is less than five percent of what exists. Nearly the entire universe is made up of dark matter and dark energy. Physicists call all this stuff “dark” because it doesn’t give off or reflect the photon-based light that exists in this material universe. When it comes to ninety-five percent of the universe, physicists admit to being clueless! And given that they have known for awhile that they were in this amazing pickle, they seem to be remarkably untroubled by it.

Dark matter makes up about 27% of the universe, which is more than five times the sum of all the material matter and energy in the universe put together. To their credit, physicists are having another go at trying to understand it. Their problem, though, is that they are looking for dark matter as if it were another set of subatomic particles – weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs), to be exact – when the very fact that dark matter won’t interact with the light on this material level of reality strongly suggests that it is not particle-based matter.

           Please think about that for a moment. Physicists are trying to study dark matter as if it were just a more exotic sort of material stuff. But if something will not react with the photons of matter-based light, then it seems self-evident to you and me that probably it is not conventional matter.

           Let’s offer these struggling physicists some help. Based on our study of the afterlife levels of reality, we know or strongly suspect that the following things are true:

  • There are at least seven levels of afterlife reality, all of which exist exactly where we are and are separated from one another and from this universe only by their different rates of energy-like spiritual vibration.
  • Each level of afterlife reality may be as large as this material universe, although since space – like time – is an artifact only of this material universe, “size” is not a characteristic that we generally associate with the afterlife levels.
  • Several of the afterlife levels of reality are as solid-seeming to their inhabitants as this universe is to us. Level Three is so reassuringly earth-like that some who die in their sleep and wake up there have trouble believing they are dead.
  • The physics of the afterlife levels is entirely consciousness-based. The matter and energy there is not based in particles at all, and therefore we can assume that it would not interact with material light composed of photons.
  • There is an intense white light in the afterlife levels. I have seen this spiritual light twice in my life, and it is much brighter than sunlight. It also has the remarkable ability to illuminate material reality. When I was eight, I saw a flash of spiritual light in my bedroom. It lit up everything.
  • The basis of reality is an infinitely powerful and highly emotional energy-like potentiality. Everything that we think of as real springs from this Source.

How can these facts help us to help our floundering mainstream physicist friends? Let’s suggest to them what “dark matter” is likely to be, what the source of all that non-photon light likely is, and even – as a bonus – what is the probable name of the “dark energy” that makes up 68% of the universe. I am betting they will eventually discover that:

  • “Dark matter” is the afterlife levels of reality. That it seems to be in a size ratio with this material universe of five-to-one looks to be about right.
  • The eighty percent of the light in the nearby universe that seems to have no source is spiritual light. No photons involved!
  • “Dark energy” is spiritual energy. No associated matter, no subatomic particles, nothing but infinitely powerful potentiality. I call this glorious energy Mind, and each of our minds is a part of Mind. You might prefer to call it… God.

 

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